Fair and performance guaranteed methods for flat-rate unlimited access service plan
Journal
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Journal Volume
3042
Pages
392-404
Date Issued
2004
Author(s)
Abstract
Simplicity in administration and operation is the choice for production networks. Hence, flat-rate unlimited access service plan is the predominant form of retail pricing in Broadband Internet access services. However, this service plan can easily result in unfair resource sharing, abusive usage and poor performance. In this paper, we propose several fair and performance guaranteed methods to alleviate the problems. The working field trial project called Virtual Internet Pricing (VIP) project was deployed at the dormitory network of National Taiwan University with a total of 5355 users. In VIP, a quota-based priority control (QPC) scheme was proposed to resolve the problems. While it alleviated the problems, QPC however raised some issues such as chaotic periods, bandwidth stealing and weak performance guarantees for in-profile packets. Four methods were proposed to enhance the basic QPC scheme. The simulation results showed that the proposed methods significantly improved network performance and increased system stability. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2004.
Other Subjects
Internet; System stability; Broadband internet access; Internet pricing; National Taiwan University; Performance guarantees; Poor performance; Priority control; Production network; Resource sharing; Costs
Type
journal article